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Will China Win the Pandemic World War?
“When paranoid, you can be wrong 1,000 times and you will survive. If non-paranoid; wrong once, and you, your genes, and the rest of your group are done.”
~Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and Fooled by Randomness. On Twitter concerning the Covid-19 threat, February 23, 2020.
Will China, the first country (and superpower) to suffer the effects of Covid-19, also be the first country to recover, and thereby gain an overwhelming strategic advantage, while the USA, Europe and the rest of the world suffer the pandemic’s worst effects for a longer and even more catastrophic period?
It may be useful to analyze Covid-19 as if it were a biological WMD attack with global reach. The origins of Covid-19 might be natural (from Chinese bat cuisine sold in Wuhan “wet markets”), or accidental (coming from a Wuhan biological research experiment), but in the end, this won’t matter to its victims.
Last weekend, I went to my local big-box home improvement store to buy some pandemic preps. On my list were rubber gloves and N-95 filter masks, items falling under the category of Personal Protective Equipment or PPE. These items and my other half-dozen purchases had something in common: they were all manufactured in China. My local store still had some N-95 masks on the shelf, but they are probably burning through their last cargo containers, with no more shipments arriving from China. There was a hand-written sign above the masks limiting ten to a customer, indicating a possible shortage.
Kick this around in yer heads ....read it all
WILL CHINA WIN THE PANDEMIC WORLD WAR?
“When paranoid, you can be wrong 1,000 times and you will survive. If non-paranoid; wrong once, and you, your genes, and the rest of your group are done.”
~Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and Fooled by Randomness. On Twitter concerning the Covid-19 threat, February 23, 2020.
Will China, the first country (and superpower) to suffer the effects of Covid-19, also be the first country to recover, and thereby gain an overwhelming strategic advantage, while the USA, Europe and the rest of the world suffer the pandemic’s worst effects for a longer and even more catastrophic period?
It may be useful to analyze Covid-19 as if it were a biological WMD attack with global reach. The origins of Covid-19 might be natural (from Chinese bat cuisine sold in Wuhan “wet markets”), or accidental (coming from a Wuhan biological research experiment), but in the end, this won’t matter to its victims.
Last weekend, I went to my local big-box home improvement store to buy some pandemic preps. On my list were rubber gloves and N-95 filter masks, items falling under the category of Personal Protective Equipment or PPE. These items and my other half-dozen purchases had something in common: they were all manufactured in China. My local store still had some N-95 masks on the shelf, but they are probably burning through their last cargo containers, with no more shipments arriving from China. There was a hand-written sign above the masks limiting ten to a customer, indicating a possible shortage.
Kick this around in yer heads ....read it all
WILL CHINA WIN THE PANDEMIC WORLD WAR?
